tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181929912018-02-16T16:53:36.302+11:00Global Warming WatchThis blog is currently heating up at an average of 0.2°C per decade. Come back often. | <a href="http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/rss.xml">RSS</a> | <a href="http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/atom.xml">Atom</a> | <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlobalWarmingWatch">Feedburner</a> |Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.comBlogger704125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-50612756931769869532013-04-29T20:16:00.000+10:002013-04-29T20:27:00.442+10:00Last time CO2 was this high, our ancestors were using stone toolsCaught this in yesterday's SMH:
Carbon dioxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere are on the cusp of reaching 400 parts per million for the first time in 3 million years. The daily CO2 level, measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, was 399.72 parts per million last Thursday, and a few hourly readings had risen to more than 400 parts per million. ''I wish it weren't true but it Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com138http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/last-time-co2-was-this-high-our.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-85967089747213484872012-05-28T23:47:00.000+10:002012-05-28T23:47:48.143+10:00Research point to drier dry areasFresh off SkS'press, climates are expected to dry out in the already arid parts of the Southern Hemisphere.
Dead Ahead: Less Rainfall for Drought-Sensitive Southern Hemisphere Regions? (via Skeptical Science)
Posted on 27 May 2012 by John Hartz This is a reprint of a news release posted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on May 18, 2012. Increasing aridity could lead Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com164http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2012/05/research-point-to-drier-dry-areas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-12668977452448085232011-10-18T18:46:00.004+11:002011-10-18T23:14:32.750+11:00Clean Energy Bill Passed Last Week. Sun Still Shines .Having passed by 74 votes to 72 in the lower house, the Clean Energy Bill's passage into Australian law is assured with the Greens holding the balance of power in the senate.What a wake of destruction she has left in her path. Four political leaders felled. Prime Ministers John Howard in 2007, Liberal, and Kevin Rudd in 2010, Labor. Howard lost because his 11th hour climate conversion was not Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com80http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/10/clean-energy-bill-passed-house-of-reps.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-4112388863192309192011-07-29T22:00:00.002+10:002011-07-29T22:07:18.349+10:00World GHG Emissions Flow ChartClick for a visual summary of what's contributing to manmade CO2 by sector and source. Global Warning Climate Change Energy Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com47http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/07/world-ghg-emissions-flow-chart.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-26422054003746075172011-07-19T12:26:00.001+10:002011-07-19T18:27:38.794+10:00House of Lords to impersonator: 'cease and desist'Looks like the House of Lords has rebuked “Lord” Monckton and sent him a ‘cease and desist’ letter, in an unprecedented fit of annoyance at his grandstanding:Climate sceptic Lord Monckton told he’s not member of House of LordsClerk of parliaments publishes letter on Lords’ site saying peer is not and has ‘never been a member of the House of Lords’The House of Lords has taken the unprecedented Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com49http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/07/house-of-lords-to-impersonator-cease.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-86813262521655073852011-07-14T18:48:00.005+10:002011-07-14T22:15:43.430+10:00Carbon Tax Phone HackA tumultuous confluence of events has hit the Australian climate debate and brought me out of a brief blogging hiatus.Sorry for the headline, it reads like a 'pick-me' for Google's search engine algorithm. But it best describe this confluence.It had been building up for a while. Climate change rumblings had been heard decades ago, but were only picked up on the public radar early in the 2000s. Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com17http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/07/carbon-tax-phone-hack.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-83521741653990502602011-03-28T11:28:00.003+11:002011-03-28T11:56:36.718+11:00Beat the carbon tax before it gets hereBuy this book:The CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook – How to save energy, save money and reduce your carbon footprintThe CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook is a practical guide designed to help Australian households reduce their carbon footprints and take action against climate change.Click for a radio interview by one of the CSIRO authors, who talks about how we can save an average of 50% off ourWadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com22http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/beat-carbon-tax-before-it-gets-here.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-12936998871755698802011-03-28T11:05:00.006+11:002011-03-28T11:28:40.112+11:00Andy Pitman mops up misinformation messThe proposed Carbon Dioxide tax has caused big fossil fuel to put a lot of misinformation about carbon dioxide out into radio-land. Every shock-jock around the country is plugging denier talking points. It's clear Big Denial is in campaign mode, facilitating Tony Abbott's "people's revolt".Luckily, we have Professor Andy Pitman, Centre director for ARC Centres of Excellence for Climate System Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com11http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/andy-pitman-mops-up-misinformation-mess.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-55589348580781378262011-03-13T22:22:00.006+11:002011-03-14T10:02:24.155+11:00Tony Abbott supports a carbon taxIt's hard to believe than Tony Abbott ever endorsed a carbon tax, even tacitly, given the ferocity of his sustained attack on Julia Gillard for announcing her government's intention to set a carbon price next year in anticipation of an emission trading system.But endorse it he did, on page 172 of Battlelines, the book he wrote after the Liberals lost office and before he took over leadership of Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com12http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/tony-abbott-supports-carbon-tax.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-396790671743054342011-03-11T10:22:00.005+11:002011-03-11T11:06:58.304+11:00Liberal's global warming history: fair weathered and fickleRod Tiffen is emeritus professor, government and international relations, at the University of Sydney.He catalogues the Australian Liberal party's shameful record on climate change and pens a devastating critique of their performance over time:The Liberals were the first main party to wholeheartedly embrace the challenge of global warming. In 1990 Andrew Peacock, and again in 1993 John Hewson, Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com13http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/rod-tiffen-is-emeritus-professor.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-66910706092491452312011-03-10T22:06:00.003+11:002011-03-10T22:13:24.882+11:00Ice sheets melting faster than predicted... causing a greater rate of sea-level rise:The pace at which the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting is "accelerating rapidly" and raising the global sea level, according to findings of a study financed by NASA.The findings suggest that the ice sheets - more so than ice loss from earth's mountain glaciers and ice caps - have become "the dominant contributor to global sea level rise, Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com14http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/ice-shelves-melting-fater-than.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-17996955487618546442011-03-10T16:56:00.005+11:002011-03-10T18:31:30.544+11:00Your blog is a load of crapI received this in my comments section of my last post.The Sciolist said...since you are running this awesome blog.....maybe you can just read what i have to say on global warming and tell me wat u think......http://desciolist.blogspot.com/2011/02/global-warming-really.html 12:07 AM ESTThank god you are a denier, because I don't have time to guild the lily. I make no apologies if this is harsh;Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com7http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/your-blog-is-load-of-crap.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-78523680192870838202011-03-05T17:18:00.011+11:002011-03-05T22:31:30.404+11:00Dumb, dumber, and dumbed right downI doubt my challenge to Andrew Bolt Blog's winged monkeys will be published in the readers' comments section following another post about Tim Flannery's alleged failed climate change "predictions". This time Bolt is piggy-backing off Clive James, a part time denier.So here it is for posterity:Except it's a lie, a denier's canard, a propagandist's fit-up. It’s a lousy deception that relies on an Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com7http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/dumb-dumber-and-dumbed-down.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-34325247967300259252011-03-03T13:31:00.008+11:002011-03-03T14:15:27.094+11:00Hidden carbon price: We already pay $170 a tonneEvery since Gillard's unsurprising statement a week ago that there will be a carbon price set by the end of next financial year (in preparation for an ETS in a few years) there has been Federal mayhem. Death-threats, comparisons of Gillard to Gaddafi, and shrieks of outrage as Tony Abbott marshals his "People's Revolt" via angry, right-wing shock-jockery and his Liberal troops hyperbolate the Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com9http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/hidden-carbon-price-we-already-pay-170.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-89752866577436140602011-02-22T23:36:00.008+11:002011-03-03T13:22:00.314+11:00IPCC attack: US house Republicans win day, risk epochUS Republicans may have won the day in the recent house vote to cut all their funds to the UN IPCC, the planet's leading climate science synthesis body, but they risk losing the Holocene. For everybody.America is to cut off all funding to the United Nations climate science panel under sweeping Republican budget cuts that seek to gut spending on environmental protection.The funding ban to the Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com10http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/02/ipcc-attack-us-house-republicans-win.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-35073197838328211142011-01-02T21:45:00.003+11:002011-01-02T22:28:03.724+11:00Fox News journos directed to promote AGW denialWhile News Corp proudly advertised three years ago that it would be carbon neutral by now, Fox News can't even serve up a neutral report on the state of climate science.Literally.They are not simply not allowed to, as an email edict from Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon to all Fox News producers now proves: From: Sammon, Bill To: 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 036 -FOX.WHU; 054 -FNSunday; Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com15http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2011/01/fox-news-journos-directed-to-promote.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-506892990206475672010-11-29T09:03:00.005+11:002010-11-30T18:49:28.557+11:00Wikileaks, eat your heart outI may soon have in my hands hot evidence that suggests The Climate Sceptic (TCS) party is not a political party, but a covert black-pr operation designed to influence the public into thinking there is more support for the denial of the science of climate change than there really is.In the meantime, this morning I have been sent the following mass-broadcast email from my tame and obedient TCS Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com16http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/11/wikileaks-eat-your-heart-out.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-5145676357768430232010-11-26T14:42:00.011+11:002010-11-27T02:36:24.078+11:00A professional climate denier repliesI have received a nice comment from Geoff Brown of the Climate Skeptic Party (TCS) astroturfing outfit in my comments section of my piece about their covert astroturfing campaign: Geoff Brown said...To the misguided individual who unfortunately does not seem to feel a need to put her/his name to this blog.I invoke the time-honoured WWW (Woof Woof Woof) defence: On the Internet, know one knows youWadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com5http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/11/professional-climate-denier-replies.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-60444634870695115282010-10-29T23:18:00.005+11:002010-10-30T01:18:31.085+11:00AGW deniers' astroturfing campaign underwayFirst it was picked up in the MSM by Andrew Bolt, climate denial's Don Quixote.Why are schools promoting this deceitful film?220 CommentsAndrew BoltWednesday, October 27, 2010 at 11:46amThe film is error-riddled and alarmist, and the work of a prize hypocrite and deceiver who dodges any attempt to hold him to account. Even an otherwise sympathetic British judge says the film contains so many Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com6http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/10/live-deniers-astroturfing-campaign.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-37643371213581929042010-09-30T23:17:00.010+10:002010-10-01T01:13:31.476+10:00Emissions down, interest up: Banking on a carbon neutral futureIt's highly unlikely that the thing to bring me back out of my grumpy hiatus from blogging about climate change (after ex-PM Rudd stalled on the ETS), would be a press release. Particular one from a bank. Like most of Australia, I suspect, the only reason why I am still with my current bank is that they are the best of a bad lot.But, when one of the big four are telling me they are now carbon Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com5http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/09/emissions-down-my-interest-up-carbon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-74913748303221059662010-05-08T21:51:00.006+10:002010-05-08T23:29:17.387+10:00Limber up for the pre-election backflip seasonThe Australian Labor Government may have abandoned the ETS field in the lead up the election. Ironically leaving Malcolm Turnbull as the only pro-CPRS player left, but on his way out. Not content with his Pyrrhic victory, he uses this for his very own backflip back into politics. Welcome back on entertainment value alone, given this:Kevin Rudd blames an opposition backflip and slow global Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com8http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/05/limber-up-for-pre-election-backflip.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-66410956816095365972010-03-21T00:26:00.005+11:002010-03-21T00:47:33.801+11:00Our problem is climate change is not our problem"... it is hard to make people value the long-term future as much as the immediate future."and other pearls of wisdom from the mind of Lord Rees of Ludlow, astrophysicist and Astronomer Royal, can be found here."Global warming poses a unique political challenge for two reasons. First, the effect is non-localised: the CO2 emissions from Britain have no more effect here than they do in Australia, Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com11http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/03/our-problem-is-climate-change-is-not.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-25613562816362663522010-03-17T23:10:00.006+11:002010-03-17T23:33:44.534+11:00How climate denial really works #2: 50% of news is spinWe learned in the first post that by just turning up in a media report, skeptical views gain enough credibility to influence audiences' views. But, how do they turn up in the first place?Crikey has published their six month long investigation into how much news is pr spin, like that of climate deniers and skeptics:Hard questions, because this is what came out in the wash: after analysing a Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com0http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-climate-denial-really-works-2-50-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-72703011048244921022010-03-17T21:23:00.003+11:002010-03-17T21:34:13.588+11:00How climate denial really worksDesmogblog carries the results of Stanford study which shows how including a "skeptic" view to balance a climate science news report affects the audience.Providing climate skeptics a voice in “balanced” mainstream media coverage skews public perception of the scientific consensus regarding climate change, leaving viewers less likely to understand the threat of climate disruption and less likely Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com5http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-climate-denial-really-works.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18192991.post-54693953156567128982010-03-14T23:08:00.006+11:002010-03-14T23:39:35.608+11:00China pings climate denial as extreme, Aussies agreeABC - The Drum: Current Poll ResultsDo you agree with China's view that man-made climate change denial is an extreme stance and out of touch with mainstream thought?Yes73%No27%3000 votes countedThat's pretty clear.Global Warning Climate Change Energy Wadardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900339523864136167noreply@blogger.com3http://globalwarmingwatch.blogspot.com/2010/03/china-pings-climate-denial-as-extreme.html